Special Sessions
List of special sessions for the WC2026 Congress
The Congress will comprise both regular as well as a number of special sessions.
The table below gives an overview at a glance.
Descriptions of the special sessions will be added later.
Special sessions
| # | Special Session | Organizer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electroporation for Cell Engineering | Govind Srimathveeravalli |
| 2 | Microfluidic electroporation | Claire Hur, Xiaoyun Ding, Jeffrey Zahn |
| 3 | Veterinary Applications of ECT | Felipe Maglietti |
| 4 | Nanoscale Electroporation | Andy Tay, Ciro Chiappini |
| 5 | Technologies, Advancements and Challenges for Sub-Nanosecond Pulses Delivery: Towards Minimally Invasive and Bridges with High Frequency Electromagnetic Fields EMF Exposure Systems | Delia Arnaud-Cormos, Philippe Lévêque |
| 6 | Molecular and Transcriptional Responses to Electrochemotherapy | Mariangela De Robertis, Boštjan Markelc |
| 7 | Fundamental Physicochemical Effects of Pulsed Electric Fields | Michal Cifra, Rok Šmerc |
| 8 | Electrotransfection for Immunotherapy | Fan Yuan |
| 9 | The Use of Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) in the Food Industry | Stefan Töpfl |
| 10 | Irreversible Electroporation | Rafael Davalos |
| 11 | In Vivo Delivery of Genetic Medicine Through Gene Electrotransfer | Emanuela Signori, Maja Čemažar |
| 12 | Emerging Medical Applications of Nanosecond and Microsecond Pulsed Electric Fields | Rich Nuccitelli, Olga Pakhomova |
| 13 | Therapeutic Applications of Gene Electrotransfer | Richard Heller, Hao Lin |
| 14 | Electric Fields for Microbial Cell Factories: Process Intensification and Product Recovery | Javier Raso, Sudhir Sastry |
| 15 | Effect of PEF Technology on Food Structure and Digestibility | Indra Oey |
| 16 | Experimental Studies of Cell and Membrane Effects of Electroporation | Andrei Pakhomov |
| 17 | Electroporation-Based Treatments in Veterinary Medicine | Nataša Tozon, Urša Lampreht Tratar |
| 18 | Potential applications of PEFs technology in vegetable and fruit processing | Claudia Siemer, Felix Schottroff |
| 19 | Calcium electroporation | Julio Arroyo, Rafael Devalos |
| 20 | Electrochemotherapy of cutaneous tumors | Gregor Serša |
| 21 | Mechanisms, Biology, and Biophysics of Cardiac PFA | Damijan Miklavčič, Lakshya Mittal |
| 22 | Modeling and Monitoring of Cardiac PFA | TBD |
| 23 | Clinical Translation, Technology, and Outcomes in Cardiac PFA | Steven Mickelsen, Edward Jacobs |